October 13th
Holidays and Festivals
International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
Navy Birthday (USA)
International Skeptics Day
Fontanalia Roman festival dedicated to Fontus
Pêche (Peach) Day * (see below)
National Face Your Fears Day
Translation (1163) of Saint Edward the Confessor (Roman Catholic)
Memorial of Saint Gerald of Aurillac (Roman Catholic)
Optional feast of Our Lady of Fatima (Roman Catholic)
* Cirio de Nazare Belem, Brazil - October - 2 weeks (7 of 14)
* Pêche (Peach) Day (French Republican) twenty-second day in the Month of Vendémiaire
Fête de la Pêche Translation: Peach Day (French Republican) The 22nd day of the Month of Vendémiaire in the French Republican CalendarToast of The Day
"A toast is a boast or other compost
To a guest or the host or one we love most;
Or any old thing for a chance to drink."
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Liquid Cocaine 2
Splash of Peach Schnapps
2/3 Shot goldschlager
Drizzle of jagermeister
Splash a bit of Schnapps into the bottom of a Shot Glass, add the Goldschlager, then layer a bit of Jagermeister (Pour down the side of the Shot Glass)
Wine of The Day
Rodney Strong (2009) Estate
Style - Pinot Noir
Russian River Valley
$25
Beer of The Day
Bell’s Expedition Stout
Brewer - Bell’s Brewery, Galesburg, MI, USA
Style - Russian Imperial Stout
ABV - 10.5%
Joke of The Day
I was talking to a girl in the pub last night and i told her she reminded me of my little toe. "Why" she said " Is that because i'm small and cute". "No" i said "Because I'll probably end up banging you on the coffee table later".
Quote of The Day
“A baby-sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.”
- Unknown
October Observances
Adopt A Shelter Dog Month
American Cheese Month
American Pharmacist Month
Antidepressant Death Awareness Month
Apple Jack Month
Apple Month
Awareness Month
Bat Appreciation Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month
Celebrate Sun Dried Tomatoes Month
Celebrating The Bilingual Child Month
Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Children's Magazine Month
Christmas Seal Campaign (10/1-12/31)
Church Library Month
Church Safety and Security Month
Class Reunion Month
Clergy Appreciation Month
Co-op Awareness Month
Computer Learning Month
Cookie Month
Cut Out Dissection Month
Diversity Awareness Month
Down Syndrome Awareness Month
Dyslexia Awareness Month
Eat Better, Eat Together Month
Eat Country Ham Month
Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
Emotional Wellness Month
Employee Ownership Month
Energy Management is a Family Affair, Improve Your Home Month (10/1-3/31)
Fair Trade Month
Feral Hog Month or Hog Out Month
Financial Planning Month
Gay and Lesbian History Month
German-American Heritage Month
Global Diversity Awareness Month
Go Hog Wild, Eat Country Ham Month
Halloween Safety Month
Head Start Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
Home Eye Safety Month
Intergeneration Month
International Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month
International Drum Month
International Starman Month
International Strategic Planning Month
International Walk To School Month
Italian-American Heritage Month
LGBT History Month
Long Term Care Planning Month
Lupus Awareness Month
Month of Free Thought
National "Gain The Inside Advantage" Month
National AIDS Awareness Month
National Animal Safety and Protection Month
National Arts & Humanities Month
National Audiology Awareness Month
National Bake and Decorate Month
National Book Month
National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
National Canine Good Health Month
National Caramel Month
National Chili Month
National Chiropractic Month
National Communicate with Your Kid Month
National Construction Toy Month
National Cookbook Month
National Crime Prevention Month
National Critical Illness Awareness Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Depression Education & Awareness Month
National Diabetes Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
National Down Syndrome Month
National Ergonomics Month
National Family Sexuality Education Month
National Field Trip Month
National Gain the Inside Advantage Month
National Go On A Field Trip Month
National Kitchen & Bath Month
National Liver Awareness Month
National Medical Librarian Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Physical Therapy Month
National Pizza Month
National Popcorn Popping Month
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
National Protect Your Hearing Month
National RSV Awareness Month
National Reading Group Month
National Roller Skating Month
National Sarcastic Awareness Month
National Seafood Month
National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
National Stamp Collecting Month
National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month
National Toilet Tank Repair Month
National Vegetarian Month
National Window Covering Safety Month
National Work and Family Month
Organize Your Medical Information Month
Pear and Pineapple Month
Photographer Appreciation Month
Polish American Heritage Month
Positive Attitude Month
Raptor Month
Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
Rhizomes and Persimmons Month
Rhubarb Month
Right Brainers Rule! Month
Sausage Month
Second Binary Month (2of 3) (0s and 1s)
Self-Promotion Month
Spinach Lovers Month
Squirrel Awareness Month (Different Than Squirrel Appreciation Day in January)
Tackling Hunger Month
Talk About Prescriptions Month
Wishbones for Pets Month (10/15 - 11/30)
Women's Small Business Month
Workplace Politics Awareness Month
World Blindness Awareness Month
World Menopause Month
Observances this Week
World Rainforest Week, Second Week in OctoberPet Peeve Week, Second Week in October
Take Your Medicine Americans Week, October 10th through 16th
Earth Science Week, Second Full Week in October
Freedom From Bullies Week, Second Full Week in October
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week, Second Full Week in October
National Chestnut Week, Second Full Week in October
Teen Read Week, Second Full Week in October
National School Lunch Week, Second Full Week in October Monday to Sunday
YWCA Week Without Violence, Second Full Week in October Monday to Sunday
National Food Bank Week, Full Week of October 16th (World Food Day)
Historical Events on October 13th
54 Nero ascends to the Roman throne
409 Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees and appeared in Hispania.
1213 Battle at Steppes-Bishop Pierrepont & Louis II beat Henry I of Brabant
1282 Nichiren Daishonin, founder of the Nichiren School of Buddhism, dies. His ashes are interred at Taisekiji Temple.
1307 Hundreds of Knights Templar in France are simultaneously arrested by agents of Phillip IV the Fair, to be later tortured into "admitting" heresy.
1332 Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan became the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, reigning for only 53 days.
1362 The Chancellor of England for the first time opened Parliament with a speech in English.
1483 Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on Bible
1492 English admiral Poynings fleet occupies Lock
1501 Maximilian of Austria & Louis XII sign Treaty of Trente
1534 Alessandro Farnese elected as Pope Paul III
1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1629 Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies
1652 Prince of Condé flees Paris
1659 Gen-major John Lambert drives out English Rump-government
1660 Denmark king Frederik III makes coup
1702 Dutch/English troops occupy Luik
1710 English troops occupy Acadia (Nova Scotia)
1716 Hungarian Emperor Karel VI's troops occupy Temesvar
1724 Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier's letters
1760 Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin
1773 The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by Charles Messier
1775 The United States Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy).
1777 After his defeat on October 7, 1777, British General John Burgoyne's Army at The Battles of Saratoga become surrounded by superior numbers, setting the stage for its surrender, which feat of arms inspires the Kingdom of France to enter the American Revolutionary War against the British.
1792 "Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published
1792 In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
1812 Battle of Queenston Heights of the War of 1812, As part of the Niagara campaign in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops led by Sir Isaac Brock.
1843 In New York City, Henry Jones and 11 others found B'nai B'rith (the oldest Jewish service organization in the world).
1845 A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution, that if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.
1860 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston
1862 Bismarck's "Blood & Iron" speech
1863 Skirmish at Blountsville, Tennessee (50 casualties)
1864 Battle at Darbytown Road Virginia (337 casualties)
1864 Battle of Dalton, GA surrendered
1864 Battle of Harpers Ferry, WV (Mosby's Raid)
1864 Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery
1870 Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert
1871 The Delphic Fraternity is founded as the Delphic Society at the State Normal School in Geneseo, New York.
1881 Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.
1884 Greenwich, in London, England, is established as Universal Time meridian of longitude.
1885 The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta, Georgia.
1890 The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11 law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
1892 Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13–14.
1893 Vigilant (US) beats Valkyrie II (Engld) in 9th America's Cup
1899 7000 lay-offs black mine workers of South Africa reach Natal
1902 Arna W Bontemps noted poet & librarian of Fisk University
1903 Pilgrims beat Pirates 5 games to 3 in 1st World Series
1903 Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland," premieres in NYC
1913 Explosion & fire in Universal Coal Mine, South Wales
1914 Belgian regime forms at St Adresse at Le Havre
1914 Boston Braves sweep Phila A's, 1st sweep in World Series history
1914 Garrett Morgan invents & patents gas mask
1914 Pro-German Boers begin opposition of British authority in South Africa
1915 Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series
1915 The Battle for the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos in northern France, World War I.
1917 Soviet accept establishment of Petrograd Military
1917 The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
1918 Mehmed Talat Pasha and the Young Turk (C.U.P.) ministry resign and sign an armistice, ending Ottoman participation in World War I.
1920 World Series celebration in Wade Park brings out 50,000+ Clevelanders
1921 NY Giants beat NY Yankees, 5 games to 3 in 18th World Series
1923 Angora (Ankara) replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
1924 Wahhabietes under Ibn Saudi take Mecca
1930 New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP'ers in uniform
1931 Musical "Everybody's Welcome" with T/J Dorsey premieres in NYC
1931 Noel Cowards "Cavalcade," premieres in London
1933 JDJ Boularan's "Tovarich," premieres in Paris
1933 Soccer team STEVO forms in Geesteren
1936 Explosion caused by leaking gas rips out section 12 of Cleve Stadium
1937 A recorded trace of snow in Central Park NYC
1941 Nazi's kill 11,000 Jewish children/old people
1943 The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on former Axis partner Germany in World War II.
1944 US 1st army begins battle of Aachen
1944 Riga, the capital of Latvia is seized by the Red Army and freed in World War II.
1946 France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.
1947 "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres
1947 1st NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 4-3 at Toronto
1949 "Touch & Go" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 176 performances
1953 Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented-Samuel Bagno
1954 RP Smith/M Shulman's "Tender Trap," premieres in NYC
1955 1st edition of L'express publishes in Paris
1956 WAGM TV channel 8 in Presque Isle, ME (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins
1957 German Dem Rep recalls East Mark & issues new currency
1958 Burial of Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII on the 41st anniversary of the "Miracle of the Sun".
1960 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY
1960 Nikita Khrushchev (PM USSR) bangs his shoe on table at UN
1960 Opponents of Fidel Castro executed in Cuba
1960 Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats NY Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th World Series
1962 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen
1962 The Pacific Northwest experiences a cyclone the equal of a Cat 3 hurricane. Winds measured above 150 mph at several locations; 46 people died.
1963 "Beatlemania" is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium
1963 9th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
1963 15th Ryder Cup, US beats 23-9 at East Lake Country Club (Atlanta, Georgia, US)
1964 At Plesman airport, Curacao, 125.5 mm rainfalls (record)
1964 Voskhod 1 crew returns
1966 173 US airplanes bomb North-Vietnam
1966 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA
1967 CBS radio cancels "House Party"
1967 The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California.
1968 Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated
1969 1st time 7 people in space
1969 Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins
1969 Soyuz 8 is launched
1970 Angela Davis arrested in NYC
1970 Fiji joins the United Nations.
1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1971 1st World Series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3)
1971 WTZH TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (CBS) suspends broadcasting
1972 "Hurry, Harry" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 2 performances
1972 An Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-62 crashed in a large pond outside Moscow killing 176.
1972 Commish Bowie Kuhn allows Bert Campaneris to play in World Series
1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in Andesgebergte in the Andes mountains, near the border between Argentina and Chile. By December 23, 1972, only 16 out of 45 people lived long enough to be rescued (rugby team eats crash victims to survive).
1973 Jordan enters Yom Kippur war
1973 Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Emily in for Carol"
1975 9th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins
1975 Rock vocal Neil Young undergoes throat surgery
1976 A Bolivian Boeing 707 cargo jet crashes in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing 100 (97, mostly children, killed on the ground).
1976 The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
1977 Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand release of 11 members of the Red Army Faction.
1978 Graig Nettles at 3rd makes many spectactular plays in WS game 3 as Guidry beats Dodgers, after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4
1978 James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu
1978 Pres Carter answers caller questions on National Public Radio
1978 Swaziland's new constitution promulgated bans political parties
1978 Tiros N, US's 1st 3rd generation weather satellite, is launched
1980 14th Country Music Association Award:[approx]
1980 Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, NY
1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt
1982 IOC Executive Committee approves the reinstatement of Jim Thorpe's s gold medals from the 1912 Olympics
1982 NJ Devils 1st short handed goal-Don Lever
1983 Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
1984 Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders
1984 John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million
1984 STS 41-G mission, lands at Kennedy Space Center
1985 "Sunday in the Park with George" closes at Booth NYC after 604 perfs
1985 Belgium premier Martens CVP wins parliamentary election
1985 During NLCS, Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is caught in Busch Stadium's automated tarpaulin
1986 20th Country Music Association Award.
1986 25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's)
1986 IOC announces baseball will become a medal sport in 1992
1987 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
1987 Costa Rican Pres Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize
1987 West Indies score 4-360 in 50 overs in Cricket World Cup v Sri Lanka
1988 Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest
1988 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz
1988 Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages
1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 Bob Quinn resigns as NY Yankee VP/GM & replaced by Harding Peterson
1989 Dow Jones down 190.58 points
1990 1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 yrs held in St Basil's Cathedral
1990 End of the Lebanese war. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
1990 Target Center in Minneapolis opens
1991 Blue Jay Cito Gaston is 1st manager ejected in a playoff game
1991 Minnesota Twins win AL pennant beating Toronto in 5 games
1992 An Antonov An-124 operated by Antonov Airlines registered SSSR-82002, crashed near Kiev, Ukraine.
1993 Captured American Pilot Mike Durant is filmed in an interview in captivity by a CNN camera crew.
1993 Greek government of Papandreou forms
1993 Mighty Ducks win their 1st NHL game
1993 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis & Michael Smith
1993 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse & Joseph Taylor
1993 Phillies beat Atlanta in NLCS
1994 Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland v Tasmania)
1994 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe
1995 Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1995 Pamela Anderson Lee, rush to hospital with flu like symptoms
1996 "Big," closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 193 performances
1996 Annika Sorenstam wins Betsy King LPGA Golf Classic
1996 NY Jet Nick Lowrey breaks Jan Stenerud NFL field goal record at 374
1996 Yanks (3) & Orioles (3) combine to tie play off record of 6 HRs
1997 Andy Green's Jet-powered car reaches record 749.69 MPH
1999 The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
2008 HM Treasury infused £37 billion ($64 billion, 47 billion euros) of new capital-bailout into Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Lloyds TSB and HBOS Plc, to avert a financial sector collapse.
2010 The 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó, Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting rescue.
2012 15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan
2012 Gerhard Richter's Abstraktes Bild sells for $34 million, the highest sold artwork by a living artist
Born on October 13th
1162 Leonora of England, Queen of Castile (d. 1214)
1244 Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar (d. 1314)
1453 Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (d. 1471)
1474 Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli, Italian painter (d. 1515)
1537 Jane Grey, Queen of England for 9 days
1563 Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint (Caracciolini)
1566 Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (d. 1643)
1613 Luisa of Medina-Sidonia, queen of Portugal (d. 1666)
1652 Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer
1696 John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (d. 1743)
1713 Allan Ramsay, Scottish painter (d. 1784)
1714 Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (d. 1778)
1759 Ecco Epkema, Dutch linguist (Frisian, old-Frisian)
1761 Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War [NS]
1768 Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (d. 1839)
1769 Horace H Hayden, cofounded 1st dental college
1783 Frantiszek Soltyk, composer
1792 Moritz Hauptmann, composer
1794 Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer
1797 William Motherwell, Scottish civil servant/poet
1808 Henry Haywood Bell, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1868
1810 James Shedden Palmer, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1867
1815 Jules Quicherat, French historian/archaeologist
1820 John William Dawson, Canadian geologist (d. 1899)
1821 Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist (cell pathology), biologist, and politician (d. 1902)
1822 Karl Reinthaler, composer
1823 Immanuel Faisst, composer
1824 Henry Stephen Cutler, composer
1826 Lafayette Curry Baker, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1844 Ernest Myers, English poet, Classicist and author (d. 1921)
1853 Lillie Langtry (Jersey Lily), British vaudevillian actress (Lillie) (d. 1929)
1853 Maria E "Beppie" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr
1862 Mary Kingsley, English writer and explorer (d. 1900)
1863 C-E Auguste Rateau, French mining engineer (Rateau steam turbine)
1874 József Klekl, Slovene politician in Hungary (d. 1948)
1876 Rube Waddell, American baseball player (d. 1914)
1877 Bernard Bosanquet, cricketer (pioneer of googly)
1878 Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1952)
1879 Peter Van Anrooy, Dutch conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie)
1880 Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (d. 1932)
1881 George Bacovia (Vasiliu), Romanian poet/composer/painter
1887 Jozef Tiso, Slovak politician (d. 1947)
1889 Douglass Dumbrille, Hamilton Ont, actor (Mr Deed Goes to Town)
1890 Conrad Richter, American novelist and short story writer (Light in the Forest) (d. 1968)
1890 Gosta Nystroem, composer
1891 Irene Rich (Luther), American actress (Beau Brummell, Champ)
1891 Ludwig Weber, composer
1895 Kurt Schumacher, German politicial chairman (SPD) [NS]
1895 Mike Gazella, American baseball player (d. 1978)
1895 Vera (A Veronica) Bondam, actress
1896 E. Beatrice Riley, Australian supercentenarian (d. 2009)
1899 Marcelle de Manziarly, composer
1900 Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (d. 1997)
1900 Marius-Francois Gaillard, composer
1901 Benjamin Merkelbach, architect/city builder of Amsterdam
1901 Edward Chapman, Harrogate England, actor (Promoter, Rembrandt)
1902 Arna Bontemps, Louisiana, black author (100 years of negro freedom)
1902 Arna Wendell Bontemps, American writer (d. 1973)
1902 Franco Giorgetti, Italy, cyclist (Olympic-gold-1920)
1903 Jens Bjerre, composer
1903 Patsy Moran, PA, actress (Children of the Wild)
1904 Jutta Hecker, writer
1904 Wilfred Pickles, English actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog) and broadcaster (d. 1978)
1905 Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian football player and manager (d. 1983)
1907 Yves Allégret, French film director (d. 1987)
1908 John Grant, British rear-admiral
1908 Werner Reinowski, writer
1909 Art Tatum, American jazz pianist (d. 1956)
1909 Herblock (Herbert L Block), American political cartoonist (d. 2001)
1910 Art(hur) Tatum, US jazz pianist, composer
1910 Otto Joachim, composer
1911 Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (d. 2001)
1911 Ticker Freeman, Paterson NJ, pianist (Dinah Shore Show)
1912 Hugo David Weisgall, Ivancice Moravia, composer (4 Impressions)
1913 Frances Tustin, child psychologist
1913 Igor Torkar, Slovenian writer (d. 2004)
1915 Cornel Wilde, American actor (High Sierra, 5th Musketeer) (d. 1989)
1915 Terry Frost, English artist (d. 2003)
1916 David Hollestelle, Dutch baritone (Great-Broadcast chorus)
1917 Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) (d. 1985)
1917 George Osmond, American patriach of The Osmonds (d. 2007)
1917 Laraine Day, Roosevelt Utah, actress (Dr Kildaire, I've Got a Secret)
1918 Jack MacGowran, Dublin Ireland, actor (King Lear, Exorcist)
1918 Robert Hudson Walker, American actor (d. 1951)
1918 Robert Walker, Salt Lake City Utah, actor/writer (Bataan, Mme Curie)
1920 Albert Hague, Berlin Germany, actor (Mr Shorofsky-Fame)
1920 Laraine Day, American actress (d. 2007)
1920 Nipsey Russell, Atlanta Ga, comedian (Car 54, Barefoot in the Park)
1921 Harper MacKay, Boston Mass, orchestra leader (NBC Follies)
1921 Yves Montand, French singer and actor (Z, Napoleon, Grand Prix) (d. 1991)
1922 Alan Scott, Haddonfield NJ, TV host/songwriter (Spin the Picture)
1922 Gilberto Mendes, composer
1923 Cyril Shaps, English actor (d. 2003)
1923 Servaas "Faas" Wilkes, Dutch footballer (Xerxes, Fortuna, Inter Milan) (d. 2006)
1924 Moturu Udayam, Indian woman's activist (d. 2002)
1924 Terry Gibbs, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Steve Allen Comedy Hour)
1925 Frank D Gilroy, American writer (Subject Was Roses)
1925 Gustav Winckler, Danish singer (d. 1979)
1925 Lenny Bruce (Leonard Schneider), American comedian, arrested on obsenity charges (d. 1966)
1925 Margaret Thatcher, English politician, PM (1979-90)
1926 Ray Brown, American jazz bassist, bandleader (d. 2002)
1926 Walter "Killer" Kowalski (wrestler) Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2008)
1927 Anita Kerr, Memphis TN, singer (Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour)
1927 Lee Konitz, American jazz saxophonist
1930 Peter J Clase, South African minister of Education/Culture (1985)
1931 Eddie Mathews, American baseball player, Hall of Famer, 512 HR's ( (Milwaukee Braves) (d. 2001)
1931 Janice Elliott, novelist
1931 Raymond Kopa, French footballer
1932 Jack Colvin, American actor (d. 2005)
1933 Adam Kaczynski, composer
1933 Queen Narriman, Egyptian royalty (d. 2005)
1933 Raynald Frechette, Canadian politician and judge (d. 2007)
1933 Thomas Bingham, English jurist
1934 Nana Mouskouri, Greek singer (Try to Remember) and politician
1935 Philippine J Aeckerlin, Dutch actress (Oh Venus, Daddy Longlegs)
1936 Cliff Gorman, Jamacia NY, actor (Boys in the Band, Angel)
1936 Elizabeth Furse, (Rep-D-Oregon)
1936 John Menzies, Scottish publisher/banker/multi-millionaire
1937 Sami Frey, French actor
1938 Hugo Young, English journalist (d. 2003)
1938 Jim McMullan, Long Beach NY, actor (Dr McDaniel-Ben Casey)
1938 Mahboob Shah, cricketer (Pakistani Test umpire on intl panel)
1939 Melinda Dillon, American actress (Close Encounters, Slap Shot)
1939 T. J. Cloutier, American poker player
1940 Chris Farlowe, rocker
1940 Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist
1941 John Snow, cricketer (fiery England quickie Unpopular with Aussies)
1941 Paul Simon, American singer and musician (Simon & Garfunkel) (Kodachrome, 1 Trick Pony)
1942 Bob Bailey, American baseball player
1942 Jerry Jones, American football team owner (Dallas Cowboys)
1942 Pamela Tiffin (Pamela Wonso), American film actress (Viva Max!)
1942 Rutanya Alda, American actress
1943 Mike Barnicle, American newspaper columnist
1944 Buddy Allin, Bremerton WA, PGA golfer (1980 NZ Open)
1944 Robert Lamm, American musician (Chicago)
1945 Christophe, French singer
1945 Dési Bouterse, Surinam politician
1945 Karen Akers, NYC, singer (On Stage at Wolf Trap)
1946 Bram Vermeulen, Dutch singer (Neerlands Hoop)
1946 Demond Wilson, Valdosta GA, actor (Sanford & Son, Baby I'm Back)
1946 Edwina Currie, British politician
1947 Alan Wakeman, English saxophonist (Soft Machine)
1947 Jerry Trupiano, American sports broadcaster
1947 Sammy Hagar, American singer (Van Halen)
1948 John Ford Coley, American musician
1948 Lacy J Dalton, Bloomsburg Pa, country singer (Crazy Blue Eyes)
1948 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician and singer (d. 1997)
1948 Ted Poe, American politician
1949 Craig McGregor, rocker (Foghat)
1949 Marisol Malaret, beauty pageant contestant (Miss Universe 1970)
1949 Patrick Nève, Belgian racing driver
1949 Tom Mees, American sports broadcaster (d. 1996)
1950 Annegret Richter-Irrang, German FR, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1972)
1950 Ellen Brusse (Elizabeth Wenmakers), Dutch TV hostess
1951 John Ford Coley, rocker (England Dan & John Ford Coley)
1951 Olympia-Ann Sylvers, rocker
1952 Beverly Johnson, American supermodel, actress (Ashanti Land of No Mercy)
1952 John Lone, Hong Kong actor
1952 Michael "Rich"ard Clifford, American Astronaut (STS 53, 59, 76)
1953 Bill Schuette, (Rep-R-MI, 1985)
1953 Pat Day, American jockey
1954 Claude Ribbe, French historian
1954 George Frazier, American baseball player
1954 Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear technician
1956 Anura Ranasinghe, cricketer (Sri Lankan batsman in 3 Tests 1982)
1956 Chris Carter, American television producer
1956 Frank Dunn, American artist
1956 Joseph Toal, Scottish religious figure
1957 Reggie Theus, American basketball player and head coach
1958 Barb Bunkowsky-Scherbak, Toronto ON, LPGA golfer (1984 Chrysler)
1958 Dwayne Evans, Phoenix Az, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1958 Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, American musician and composer
1958 Joseph Richard Sylvers, rocker
1958 Maria Cantwell, American politician (Rep-D-Washington)
1959 Marie Osmond, American singer, actress (Paper Roses, Goin' Coconuts)
1960 Ari Fleischer, American White House press secretary to George W. Bush
1960 Greg Derr, Marshfield Mass, free pistol (Olympics-1996)
1960 Joey Belladonna, American musician (Anthrax)
1960 Peter Keisler, American attorney, United States attorney general
1960 Tim Brewster, American football coach
1961 Derek Harper, American basketball player, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Orlando Magic)
1961 Doc Rivers, American basketball player and coach
1962 Jerry Rice, American football player, NFL wide receiver (SF 49ers)
1962 Kelly Preston, American actress (Mischief, Twins, A Tigers Tale)
1962 T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, American actress
1963 Chip Foose, American automotive designer and fabricator
1963 Colin Channer, Jamaican writer
1963 Scott Andrew Mink, American convicted murderer (d. 2004)
1964 Allen Covert, American actor
1964 Chris Gwynn, LA CA, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1964 Christopher Judge, American actor
1964 Marco Travaglio, Italian journalist
1964 Niè Haishèng, Chinese astronaut
1965 Cherelle, musician (Affair-First Bite)
1965 Johan Museeuw, Belgian cyclist
1965 Linda Brenneman, Wheat Ridge Colo, cyclist (Olympics-11th-96)
1965 Rob Schneider, actor (Saturday Night Live, Men Behaving Badly)
1967 Derrick Moore, NFL running back (Az Cardinals, Carolina Panthers)
1967 Javier Sotomayor, Cuban jumper (world record 1989)
1967 Kate Walsh, American actress
1967 Scott Cooper, American baseball player
1967 Steve Vickers, English footballer
1967 Trevor Hoffman, American baseball player, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1968 Carlos Marin, Spanish baritone (Il Divo)
1968 David Alcoriza, Lodi California, double trap (Olympics-1996)
1968 Julio Valera, San Sebastian Puerto Rico, pitcher (KC Royals)
1968 Tisha Campbell-Martin, American actress (Gina-Martin, House Party) and singer
1969 Cady McClain, American actress (Dixie Martin-All My Children)
1969 Nancy Kerrigan, American figure skater
1969 Rhett Akins, American country singer
1969 Rhonda Mapp, WNBA center/forward (Charlotte Sting)
1969 Tim Crabtree, Jackson MI, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1970 Ann Grossman, Grove City Ohio, tennis star (1994 LA finalist)
1970 Eric Gant, WLAF running back (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 Mel Jackson, American actor and R&B musician
1970 Paul Potts, British Opera singer and winner of Britain's Got Talent
1970 Rob Howley, Welsh rugby player
1970 Serena Altschul, American reporter
1970 Steve Matthews, NFL/WLAF quarterback (KC Chiefs, Scottish Claymores)
1971 Billy Bush, American TV host
1971 Hitesh Modi, Kenyan cricketer (1996 World Cup)
1971 Irv Smith, NFL tight end (NO Saints)
1971 Jay Williams, defensive end (St Louis Rams)
1971 Luis Tosar, Spanish actor
1971 Pyrros Dimas, Greek weightlifter
1971 Sacha Baron Cohen, English comedian, actor (Ali G, Borat)
1971 Sean O'Donnell, Ottawa, NHL defenseman (LA Kings)
1972 Jaime Bernardo, prince of Netherlands
1972 Jean Foster, Columbus GA, 3x20 rifle (Olympics-1996)
1972 Margarita Maria Beatriz, princess of Netherlands
1972 Summer Sanders, American swimmer, butterfly (Olympics-gold-1992, 96) and sports broadcaster
1973 Brian Dawkins, American football player, NFL safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 Matt Hughes, American mixed martial artist
1973 Nanako Matsushima, Japanese actress
1973 Peter Dumbreck, Scottish race car driver
1974 Anthony Carbone, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1974 Hawick Lau, Chinese actor and singer
1974 Joseph Utsler, American rapper (Insane Clown Posse)
1975 Arafath Hill, soccer player (FC Groningen)
1975 David Kennedy, American musician (Box Car Racer, Angels & Airwaves)
1975 Leo Koswal, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1976 Edward Ellis, tackle (New England Patriots)
1977 Gareth Batty, English cricketer
1977 Kiele Sanchez, American actress
1977 Paul Pierce, American basketball player
1978 Jermaine O'Neal, American basketball player, NBA forward (Portland Trailblazers)
1979 Wes Brown, English footballer
1980 Ashanti, American singer
1980 David Haye, English boxer
1980 Jon Micah Sumrall, American singer (Kutless)
1980 Magne Hoseth, Norwegian footballer
1980 Scott Parker, English footballer
1981 Kele Okereke, English singer (Bloc Party)
1981 Ryan Ashford, English footballer
1982 Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer
1984 Frank Simek, American footballer
1984 Misono, Japanese singer (Day After Tomorrow)
1986 Gabriel Agbonlahor, English footballer
1987 Ashley Newbrough, American actress
1988 Scott Jamieson, Australian footballer
1992 Aaron Dismuke, American voice actor
1993 Tiffany Trump, daughter of Donald Trump & Marla Maples
2324 Beverly Crusher, fictional doctor on Star Trek Next Generation
Died on October 13th
54 Claudius, Roman Emperor, dies of poisonous mushrooms (b. 10 BC)
1093 Robert I, the Fries, Count of Flanders
1282 Nichiren Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism (b. 1222)
1311 Gwijde van Names, Flemish marshal (Golden Track),
1415 Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1381)
1508 Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros, English politician (b. 1446)
1601 Tycho Brahe, greatest naked-eye observer, dies in Prague
1605 Theodore Beza, French theologian (b. 1519)
1643 Sweder van Haersolte, mister of Swaluwenborch, diplomat
1652 Abraham Verhoeven, Flemish printer/newspaper publisher
1673 Kristoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (b. 1617)
1680 Daniel Elsevier, book publisher/publisher
1680 Francois Roberday, composer
1687 Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)
1694 Samuel von Pufendorf, German jurist (b. 1632)
1701 Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer
1706 Iyasus the Great, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1682)
1708 Henry van Nassau, mister of Ouwerkerk/fieldmarshal
1715 Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (b. 1638)
1759 John Henley, English minister (b. 1692)
1774 Willem Bentinck, mister of Rhoon/Pendrecht/Orangist
1777 Dismas Hatas, composer
1788 Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)
1795 William Prescott, American Revolutionary soldier
1805 Johann Christoph Kuhnau, composer
1812 Isaac Brock, English general (conquered Detroit), dies in battle (b. 1769)
1815 Joachim Murat, French marshal and King of Naples (1808-15), executed (b. 1767)
1819 Giovanni Battista Gaiani, composer
1822 Antonio Canova, Italian sculpto
1825 Maximilian I Jozef, king of Bayern, Bavaria (b. 1756)
1855 Gottfried Rieger, composer
1869 Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (Tableau Historique) (b. 1804)
1882 Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (b. 1816)
1890 Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1816)
1904 Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (b. 1870)
1905 Henry Irving (John H Brodribb), English actor (Hamlet
1905 Sir Henry Irving, the first British actor to be knighted (b. 1838)
1909 Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker, anarchist, executed (b. 1849)
1917 Florence La Badie, American actress
1918 Gerrit Engelke, German writer (Briefer der Liebe)
1919 Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1920 Isaac Capadose, lawyer, evangelist
1924 Anatole France, [Jacques Thibault], writer (Ecrivain Francais)
1926 Hans E. Kinck, Norwegian author and philologist (Driftekaren) (b. 1865)
1931 Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868)
1938 E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (b. 1894)
1941 GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies
1945 Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (The Hershey Chocolate Company) (b. 1857)
1947 Sydney Webb, England, writer/husband of Beatrice Potter
1948 Samuel S Hinds, actor (Raven, Test Pilot)
1950 Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
1951 W G (Billy) Quaife, cricketer (7 Tests for England, 228 runs)
1953 Millard Mitchell, actor (12 O'Clock High, Gunfighter)
1955 Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (b. 1897)
1958 Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, composer
1959 K Rudolf Mengelberg, Dutch composer (Concert Amsterdam)
1963 Henry Daniell, English actor (Woman in Green, Body Snatchers)
1965 Paul H Muller, Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948)
1966 Clifton Webb, American actor (Laura, Razor's Edge) (b. 1889)
1966 Father Marriott, cricketer (one Test for England, 11 wickets
1968 Bea Benaderet, American actress (Petticoat Junction) (b. 1906)
1970 Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano
1971 Stafford Smythe, Canadian NHL executive (b. 1921)
1973 Albert Mandler, Israeli colonel, (b.1929)
1974 Ed Sullivan, American television personality (Ed Sullivan Show, Toast of the Town) (b. 1901)
1979 Clarence Muse, actor (Sam-Casablanca)
1979 Rebecca Helferich Clarke, English composer and violist (b. 1886)
1981 Nils Asther, actor (Son of Lassie, Wild Orchids)
1985 Jack Wilson, cricketer (Test for Australia, 0-39 & 1-25, DNB)
1987 Kishore Kumar, Indian Singer (b. 1929)
1987 Walter H Brattain, American physicist (transistors) (Nobel laureate 1956) (b. 1902)
1988 Mike Venezia, jockey, dies in 5th-race fall at Belmont Race Track, NY (b. 1945)
1990 Hans Freudenthal, mathematician/director OW&OC (F Institution
1990 Le Duc Tho, North Vietnamese general, politician, negotiator in Paris (1975), recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1911)
1991 Daniel Oduber Quiros, president of Costa Rica (1974-1978)
1991 Donald Houston, actor (Battle Hell, Study in Terror)
1992 Dantrell Davis, victim of gang crossfire in Cabrini-Green (b. 1985)
1992 Hughes Rudd, news anchor (CBS Morning News)
1992 James Marshall, illustrator/author (The Stupids)
1993 Gwen Wells, actress (Nashville)
1993 Leon Ames, US actor (Mr Ed, Peggy Sue got Married)
1993 Wade Flemons, American soul singer (b. 1940)
1995 Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter (b. 1924)
1995 Golfredo Corradetti, conducto
1995 Henry Roth, novelist (Call it Sleep)
1996 Albert Hughes Williams, teacher/historian
1996 Beryl Reid, actress (Yellowbeard, Psychomania)
1996 Henri Nannen, journalist
1996 Rene Lacoste, tennis player
1997 Adil Carcani, prime minister of Albania (1982-91)
2000 Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
2001 Peter Doyle, Australian folk singer (The New Seekers) (b. 1949)
2002 Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)
2003 Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
2004 Enrique Fernando, Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court (b. 1915)
2005 Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)
2006 Wang Guangmei, Chinese first lady (b. 1921)
2007 Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
2008 Alexei Cherepanov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1989)
2009 Stephen Barnett, American legal scholar who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 (b. 1935)
2010 Vernon Biever, American photographer (b. 1923)
2011 Barbara Kent, Canadian born U.S. silent film actress and WAMPAS Baby Stars (b.1907)
2012 Gary Ennis Collins, American film and television actor
2012 Helmut Haller, German footballer